Posted on 12/05/2009 8:14:48 PM PST by Irisshlass
Edited on 12/06/2009 3:09:11 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
The beards and garb parts are true. But indistinguishable? That's ridiculous. They're distinguishable in a glance, and many of them genuinely LIKE it that way --it is power, which is their stock in trade, their daily bread.
They could be realllllly stealthy if they chose to be, but in fact most of the time they do NOT chose this.
So they're elite troopers who grow beards --big deal.
I do not blame Prince for wanting to take a break, especially with this America-hating President.
This to me just doesn’t make any sense. And now he is going to teach school? Something is a miss here.
Nope, someone this smart will have a bunch of sensitive data hidden away to be disclosed if and when his heart stops. Everyone will want him to stay very healthy. No side of this knows what he has stashed.
He is front and center telling the world what he is doing. If he hadn’t protected himself he would already be dead.
I think if you had to deal with the high level bureaucrats and technocrats in DC on a daily basis, get betrayed, be trashed in the press for years and have the lives of your employees put at risk for a political game you’d want get a 9 to 5 job too.
The book you recommended is scary. Why didn’t Bush oust these people?
Uh, yeah, the fact that there is an investigation into Xe, for killing people. Mr. Prince could be in some big trouble. I would suspect, he’s in cya mode.
Nope. He never did take the leakers to task.
Wahsington works like a Vince Flynn novel.
Maybe not... Sometimes a person has had all of the adventure they can stand. It doesn't mean you get to step back from black operations and just forget everything. It just means that, instead of working your current operation, or looking at planning your next operation, you just have keep an eye out for things coming back from the past and biting you. Even that aspect can be very trying sometimes... Quirky little things can happen that make you think something is about to come back on you - when in fact there is nothing going on at all. Paranoia goes with the territory to some extent... You know how things work, so you keep an eye out to make sure no one is working them on you. And sometimes, depending upon what you know, making some information public will keep you alive.
In other words, instead of fighting on three fronts (past, present, and future), you only have to fight on one - the past. And since you are not creating any new situations, the further away from past operations you can get, the safer (over time) you feel... But it never goes away, you never completely forget it, and you never let your guard down in regards to any potential threat.
Regards,
Raven6
I saw him do an interview on TV once and he is a scary, scary guy. If I lived next door to him for twenty years, if I went over to borrow a cup of sugar I’d make sure both my hands were in plain sight.
I just put it on my library request list. What's going to make me angry enough to throw it?
It totally makes sense to me that the guy would want to teach high school.
One of my favorite teachers in high school was a retired spy who, oddly, didn’t use a textbook. He taught American History by telling us stories, including a few of his own adventures.
In college, one of my most interesting classes was History of Espionage, taught by a former CIA agent. One of the special projects that was assigned to a team of students was to figure out how to take over San Diego. We were treated to a really different look at the local freeways, fuel supplies, media, local politics, etc.
I’d love to take a course from this guy.
B.S. There is no investigation...
Prince doesn't need to grovel in conventional "cya" modes...
'A wide-ranging federal grand jury investigation is being conducted on Xe's operations. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Raleigh declined to comment to the Times on the probe and did not return calls seeking comment Tuesday evening by The Associated Press.
Several former Blackwater employees told the Times they have been interviewed by prosecutors or the grand jury on various topics, including alleged weapons smuggling. Two former employees have pleaded guilty to weapons charges and are believed to be cooperating with prosecutors.'
Why? Do you think Prince would consider you more dangerous if they weren't?
Hmmm...how many other "danger signs" do you think you might display that will need correction just to borrow a cup of sugar from a neighbor of 20 years?
If you come to the next DC tea Party...make sure you do not, for any reason, get on the Blue Line Metro.
Who can blame him? God bless him ..
he was used. I think he built something
truly worthwhile and for which there
was a need: training police and
military all over the world and
apparently being available for high
risk operations when our govt called.
Now to this crew .. including maybe
the perfumed princes at the Pentagon
it appears he’s disposable, a target
and thrown under 0’s crowded bus.
Maybe I’m paranoid, but it could be
another way they’re weakening us and
our defense infrastructure, here and
in the warzones.
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Vanity Fair article
Tycoon, Contractor, Soldier, Spy
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2010/01/blackwater-201001?currentPage=1
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Excerpt:
I put myself and my company at the C.I.A.’s disposal for some very risky missions,” says Erik Prince as he surveys his heavily fortified, 7,000-acre compound in rural Moyock, North Carolina.
“But when it became politically expedient to do so, someone threw me under the bus.” Prince—the founder of Blackwater, the world’s most notorious private military contractor—is royally steamed. He wants to vent. And he wants you to hear him vent.
yes, it reminds me of all the morons I have met whom within ten minutes of introduction claim they are members of the IRA, the mob or Russian mafia.
The other problem is our leaders sign agreements with other countries and then it hampers our ability to target terrorists or others who want to harm America.
Blackwater, and their ilk, are “private” - and that gives them the ability to go places (incognito) and do things our military, by law, cannot do.
People must have their head burried in the sand, if they believe we don’t target EVIL PEOPLE who intend to harm us.
Rightly so... they brought it on themselves. Conservatives, however, ARE NOT...
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